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@anthonyghantous 

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Diagnosis, relationship, break-up, rant, etc...

I recently went through a #breakup after a 3-year long #relationship. I think my diagnosis hit my partner really hard... harder than it hit me. She didn’t know how to deal with the sadness I was feeling for almost a year. She really wanted to help she really wanted to be there for me but didn’t know...
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@carmenrivera 

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Relationships/marriage

Has anyone ended up getting/considered a breakup after getting diagnosed? Did anyone’s partner just stopped caring after seeing some type of improvement? In my case when I first got ny diagnosis I told my husband that if he wanted I would sign the divorce papers (I’m 28 he’s 40, Im the one who work...
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@jumpingJacks 

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No, Your Self-Diagnosed Trauma Didn't Cause It"

Of course your past or current mental trauma caused MS. clearly your mind is powerful and grabbed a chisel to your brain, carving out lesions like a deranged sculptor. Yes this makes perfect sense!. Maybe overthinking also breaks bones Meh It's a physical condition, caused by "Light bulb moment" ac...
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@supermum1983 

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Dealing With Burnout

If anyone has any tips please share, I had to book sometime off work because something had to give,and thee kids break up soon (yay) All little things can add up, I think learning to say no more will help me difficult though.
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@Schwalbe 

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Potential partner is scared of catching feelings

I spent a lot of time with a woman for just over a year. Our relationship morphed through a friendship, to dating, to something in between. We are very close, she might be my deepest friend by now. I love her, and she knows it. Yesterday, she told me that she can see a future with me, BUT she is sca...
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@NatalieNoor 

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How long to stabilise?

Hi guys! I was diagnosed with ms this late march, began meds late may, and since my recent mri late sept it shows an old but new lesions caused likely before June/ or even before commending meds itself. I’m interested to know how long it took others to stabilise, either with meds, and by other mean...
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@NatalieNoor 

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Anyone using Ayurveda for stress / their ms?

Hi! Recently explored a course of punchakarma (Ayurvedic detox treatment) as it helps to release stress, Indian doc recommends I do a short detox every change of season (four times a year). Just wondering if anyone else has, and or how they found it? I did a nine day course which seems to have remov...
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@NatalieNoor 

NatalieNoor

Anyone using Ayurveda for stress / their ms?

Hi! Recently explored a course of punchakarma (Ayurvedic detox treatment) as it helps to release stress, Indian doc recommends I do a short detox every change of season (four times a year). Just wondering if anyone else has, and or how they found it? I did a nine day course which seems to have remov...
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@Moglula 

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Started Copaxone - tips from MS Nurse!

I’ve just started Copaxone and did my first injection with the MS Nurse a few days ago. I just wanted to share some of the advice she gave me in case it’s of use to anyone else, as some of it I hadn’t seen mentioned before. Firstly, she said she doesn’t like the CSYNC autoinjector because it leave...
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@Michelle_Burgos 

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Lonliness witb MS

I never thought that loneliness could have gotten worse but then i was diagnosed with MS in 2016. I have had 4 boyfriends breakup with me because of it. Stated tbey can not handle the changes. I have alsways been up front and honest with men when dating but dating in it self is hell. It's hard enoug...
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